time for an adventure.

I've never been one to really do the whole blogging thing, but since I am going on this grand adventure to Ukraine, I figured now would be a good time to start one.

Why am I going to Ukraine? or the Ukraine, as my best friend Cherish and I like to call it.
Well, it all started one day at lunch time when Cherish and I were trying to find a place to sit at the Cougareat at Brigham Young University. We found an open table with a flier on it, so of course we read the flier. It was about in interest meeting for something but all we saw on it were the words free and food. Of course we ended up attending this meeting, and turns out it was for the International Language Program (ILP). In this meeting we really became intrigued with the program and seriously started talking about how awesome it would be if we could go. Well, as luck would have it, our parents thought it would be pretty awesome if we went too! So we both put in our applications, both got accepted, and we both got emails saying we would be going to Kiev, Ukraine! We leave at the end of this month!

I guess I should kind of explain what this program is all about. ILP sends teachers to schools in many different countries and cities to teach English to kids. We will spend about 15-20 hours a week teaching English. Luckily for us, we do not need to know the native language to teach the children.

We had training a few weeks ago and we got to learn the ways in which we will be teaching. We had a lot of information crammed into our brains in two days. We will be having more in depth training once we arrive in Kiev. While we were at training though we got to meet our head teacher! Her name is Samantha and she seemed great! As of right now, Cherish and Samantha are the only people that I will know in Kiev. I cannot wait until I get there and meet the rest of the girls! It is going to be so fun!

I know that I am going to experience some pretty insane culture shock and I am really nervous for that. I have actually never left the country and now the one time I do leave, I'm not coming back for four months. Well, hopefully I'll come back.

If I remember, this blog will be updated about everything that I am doing before I leave for the Ukraine, while in the Ukraine, and once I get back from there it'll be about wherever I happen to be living. And people who know me know that I love stories. And that I always have a "funny" story to tell. So I am pretty positive I will be sharing plenty of those with everyone!

I am so excited for this new chapter of my life and I can't wait to leave and to share all of my experiences with y'all! ...if there is a y'all. It might just be my mom reading this...possibly. Maybe my dad. Or my sisters. Well, at least I'm making an effort to keep people updated!